CAPA and Broadway in Columbus today announced the lineup for the 2021-22 Broadway season.
March 03, 2020
The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) and Broadway in Columbus today announced the next exciting lineup for the PNC Broadway in Columbus series. The six-show 2020-21 season, supported in part by PNC, includes four productions never before seen in Columbusa? the Tony Award-winning Come From Away, the dazzling musical production of the beloved movie Pretty Woman: The Musical, Disney s newest spectacular Broadway musical, Frozen, and winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Hadestown. The season also includes the acclaimed new production of Fiddler on the Roof and the record-breaking, classic musical, CATS.
Todd Bemis turns the key to let himself into the theater that’s been a part of his soul for more than 40 years and walks a well-worn path he knows by heart as he flips switch after switch to bathe the darkened space in warm and comforting light.
He pauses at the top of the Palace’s grand staircase, looks up at the ceiling, glances at the floor and says to no one in particular: “Hmmm, I see some plaster dust. We’ll have to see about that.”
And then he descends and sits on the step near the bottom noting that it’s the very space where theater and film legend Mickey Rooney sat decades ago during a run here of “Sugar Babies” to kibbitz with volunteers before the show and within minutes, Bemis cries.
Bruce Campbell and Cary Grant sound like odd bedfellows.
Campbell is an actor, producer and writer best-known for his appearances in the long-running “Evil Dead” horror-movie series.
Grant is, well, Grant the iconic star of “The Awful Truth,” “His Girl Friday” and “North by Northwest.”
Yet, as Campbell sees it, he has something in common with the long-deceased movie star: They both savor fan interactions.
“(Grant) died basically at an event in Davenport, Iowa,” Campbell said, referring to Grant’s death in 1986, at the age of 82, while in Iowa to present his one-man show “A Conversation with Cary Grant.” “He took little clips of his movies, then he took questions and cracked jokes.”